An example of using CPAT

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The Child Participation Assessment Tool (CPAT) helps institutions and organisations understand how well children’s participation is being supported at a national level. It is used to evaluate the presence of 10 factors that facilitate individual and collective participation and to take action to improve things.

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Child Participation Assessment Tool (CPAT)

Downloadable Materials

The Council of Europe Child Participation Assessment Tool (CPAT)

Child-Friendly Version of the CPAT

CPAT Outcome Indicators

The CPAT is the Council of Europe approach or model to measuring progress in promoting the right of children and young people under the age of 18 to participate in matters of concern to them. It allows countries to explore the extent to which they have put in place 10 factors that create conditions which promote children’s rights to participate.

Ministries and collaborating organisations look at practice at a national level. They assess how well they are doing and plan areas for improvement. They use this information to plan further actions. This can include changing laws, developing training, and creating children’s participation mechanisms.

Under the CP4Europe project, a child-friendly version of the CPAT was developed. This can be used to explain to the CPAT process to children.

A set of CPAT outcome indicators was also developed. These can be used by countries to monitor the extent to which the CPAT plans they put into action are actually improving the lives of children.

Case Studies: Using the Child Participation Assessment Tool

Examples of how to assess and plan to strengthen child participation at country level

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Child Participation Accessment Tool: How we did this in Czech Republic

To verify the CPAT indicators, we used research of laws, manuals, organized focus groups for children and adults, addressed the child and adult population through a questionnaire survey.

Child Participation Assessment Tool: How we did this in Portugal

In Portugal, the Project CP4Europe resulted in the implementation of the CPAT and in the production of a White Paper on Child Participation in Portugal.